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Woden, Texas

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1952 and the latest in 1992. It stands in the Chireno-Martinsville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75961. It stands on Atascoso Creek. The Survey maps it on the Woden quadrangle. It stands 240 feet above sea level.

Woden within Nacogdoches County

On record in Woden

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 1 record

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 12 printed sheets

Matched by testing this settlement's coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet in the United States Geological Survey's historical collection. Each opens the scanned sheet at the Survey.

Fires near this place

116 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 116 fires within 5 miles of Woden between 1992 and 2020, burning about 4,687 acres in total. 6 started naturally. 6 were recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Reported cause Fires
Debris and open burning72
Missing data/not specified/undetermined18
Arson/incendiarism6
Natural6
Equipment and vehicle use6
Power generation/transmission/distribution5
Fireworks2
Misuse of fire by a minor1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
8 September 2014Debris and open burning1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceCONTROL BURN
5 September 2010Debris and open burning2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service8161 FM 226 WILDLAND
5 September 1998Debris and open burning15 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
3 September 2015Debris and open burning10 acresTexas A & M Forest Service7097
28 September 2007Debris and open burningunder an acreTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
25 September 1993Debris and open burning4.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
25 September 1993Debris and open burning3.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
2 September 2000Equipment and vehicle use6.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceHENDERSON - 448

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Nacogdoches County

Storms near this place

10 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Woden in 10 storm reports between 1993 and 2020: 6 thunderstorm wind, 3 hail, 1 tornado. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
March 2009Thunderstorm WindWoden$50,000Thunderstorm winds downed trees in the Woden community. One tree crashed through the roof of a mobile home on FM 3228 which trapped a 91 year old woman in the home. She was rescued by EMS units but was not injured. Downed trees and powerlines were also reported across the county from FM 1275 to FM 95.
September 2008Tornado (EF0)Woden$50,000A roof was ripped off a metal building and insulation was strewn into trees. Minor damage was observed to a trailer 1/8th of a mile southeast where the weak EF0 tornado first touched down. Several trees were damaged about 1/8th of a mile northwest of the circulation center.
April 2020HailWoden-Photos of golf ball size hail that fell in the Woden community were submitted to social media.
September 2017Thunderstorm WindWoden-Trees and power lines were blown down in Woden near the Elementary/High School.
August 2009Thunderstorm WindWoden-Trees were downed in the Woden Community.
August 2009Thunderstorm WindWoden-A tree was downed on a poweline on CR 552 south of Woden, Texas.
June 2008HailWoden-Nickel sized hail covered the ground with some larger stones in the town of Woden, Texas.
May 2008Thunderstorm WindWoden-About 15 trees were downed between Woden and Chireno, Texas.
July 2002Thunderstorm WindWoden-Several large trees down.
May 1993HailWoden-Dime-size hail was reported near Woden .

Every storm recorded in Nacogdoches County

Nearest settlements

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Plainview3.3 miles12
Lacyville4.3 miles12
Oak Ridge4.8 miles12
Melrose4.8 miles11
Poe5.2 miles15
Suttons Mill7.8 miles12
Clear Springs7.8 miles12
La Cerda8.2 miles12

Elsewhere

Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.

Wikipedia article on WodenAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q8029000The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0).

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1380799. The sheet list is computed by point-in-boundary test against the United States Geological Survey's historical topographic inventory. Both are works of the United States government and carry no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.